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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1874 [1][2] The depiction of night in paintings is common in Western art. Paintings that feature a night scene as the theme may be religious or history paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, or other subject types. Some artworks involve religious or ...
Anna Louise Wolcott was born on May 25, 1868, in Providence, Rhode Island. [1] She was the daughter of Harriet Amanda (Pope) Wolcott and Samuel Wolcott, D.D. [2] Her brother, Edward O. Wolcott, was a United States senator and Henry R. Wolcott was treasurer of the Colorado Smelting and Mining Company. [3]
The film is set to the Nocturne from Borodin's String Quartet #2. During Christmas in Saint Petersburg, in pre-Revolution times, an impoverished girl tries to sell matchsticks on the streets, but every potential customer refuses. Later that night, the girl huddles in a snowy alley, trying to warm herself against the cold.
Dana Suesse was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1909. When she grew too tall for ballet, she began piano lessons with Gertrude Concannon. While still a child, Suesse toured the Midwest vaudeville circuits in an act centered on dancing and piano playing. During the recital, she would ask the audience for a theme, and then weaving it into ...
The high school and university coexisted on the Denver campus, sharing facilities until a dedicated building was constructed for the high school in 1984.In 1989, a parcel of land near Parker and Arapahoe Roads in Aurora was donated to the school. That area is now called the Campbell Campus, and it houses both the Girls and Boys Divisions.
She appeared in many 1940s and 1950s film noir and adventure films. Signing with RKO in 1945, her first film was opposite George Raft in Nocturne (1946). Her singing voice in the nightclub was redubbed by a singer. Huston was the ninth actress to play Jane, appearing in Tarzan's Peril (1951). (Another source says, "She becomes the fifteenth ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stems from a multiyear legal battle ...
Fêtes ("Festivals") III. Sirènes ("Sirens") Nocturnes, L 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an Impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899. It is based on poems from Poèmes anciens et romanesques (Henri de Régnier, 1890).